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Zander
Vance

I write songs and draw the places I walk. Everything here is mine, made start to finish.

Pencil and wash drawing of a lavender door mounted in a chain-link fence on a Houston street.
A door to nowhere, on purpose  Columbia Street, Houston.
Songs
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Never Far

Wrote it for the one who leaves a light on.

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Drawings
Places I Walked
Pencil and wash drawing of a lavender door mounted in a chain-link fence.
A door to nowhere, on purposeColumbia Street, Houston. Lavender door in a chain-link fence. No path, no porch, facing the street on purpose.
Pencil and wash drawing of a two-story Colonial house with a concrete staircase.
The House With No StoryBloomington, Indiana. Louise Story wrote about her mother's first house on Jordan Street, since renamed Eagleson. I went looking. I couldn't pin which house it was.
Colored-pencil and wash drawing of a park festival under a huge live oak, with tents and flags along a pond.
The festival, as it standsHermann Park, Houston. The Japanese festival under the big live oak: tents and flags along the pond, people in kimono. The first drawing anyone paid me for.
Walks
Columbia Street, Houston For weeks a lavender door in a chain-link fence stayed in my head. I went back to see if it was real. It was.
Bellaire Boulevard, Houston The Chinatown gateway says its own name in two languages. The flags were at half staff. I looked up why.
423 Eagleson, Bloomington A house in an essay by Louise Story. The street name changed. I went looking and couldn't find which house it was.